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Venezuela announced it had dismantled a CIA-funded cell plotting a false-flag attack on a US warship in the southern Caribbean, as the US increased pressure on Caracas by flying bombers nearby.

Venezuelan authorities claimed to have uncovered a plan targeting the USS Gravely, a guided-missile destroyer that docked Sunday in Trinidad and Tobago, within firing range of Venezuela.

The ship’s arrival sparked outrage in Caracas, which labelled it a “provocation" aimed at inciting a war in the Caribbean.

Meanwhile, tensions escalated with Trinidad and Tobago, whose Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar is a vocal critic of Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro and a supporter of US President Donald Trump’s military campaign against drug traffickers in the Caribbean.

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